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Bench. mollie: its obvious they completely changed their mind on it. howie: sean hannity called reids move one of the most lawless power grabs in the history of the u.s. senate. now most republicans and conservatives are saying they had to do this baits was unfair because the democrats were trying to filibuster a supreme court nominee. margaret: the shift is so obvious we almost dont factor it in anymore. howie: commentators should be -- margaret: if the press has a bias its towards romanticizin...

Bench. mollie: its obvious they completely changed their mind on it. howie: sean hannity called reids move one of the most lawless power grabs in the history of the u.s. senate. now most republicans and conservatives are saying they had to do this baits was unfair because the democrats were trying to filibuster a supreme court nominee. margaret: the shift is so obvious we almost dont factor it in anymore. howie: commentators should be -- margaret: if the press has a bias its towards romanticizin...

Will somehow transform the situation. despite the fact that we know and president obama repeated this over and over again, there is no military solution. that means there has to be a willingness to say there isnt an instant solution that looks dramatic and beautiful as one of your commentators last night was repeating several times, which was completely inappropriate, saying that the bombing trails are somehow beautiful. those bombing trails hold the risk of killing people. and they are violent ...

Theres a difference between skepticism and cynicism. we heard commentators here on cnn say this was a presidential moment for president trump that he became trump. its presidential to fix something. and fixing syria, where would you even start? thats an enormous task. i think its too soon. >> i think its too soon to know what this was on thursday, what the presidents motives were. weve been told its because he saw these horrific images and felt compelled to do something. he was overwhelmed by th...

The runway. i didnt do this or it did do that. what i would tell you is i know how the plans with made in the pentagon. what they wanted to hit they hit. what they didnt hit they didnt want to hit. there were reasons for all of these things. we cant get in the minds of planners or commanders in chief. i would suggest there is more rational than what we are reporting on the news and what we as commentators are right now. >> what do you see when you see this strike? >> i think it was a good ball l...

Another or not. the problem is that whole analysis by president obama, whatever the analysis was of president trump and those around him, it leaves out the people of syria. it leaves out the people who are affected by this. it assumes that the u.s. can move in militarily, and that will somehow transform the situation. despite the fact that we know and president obama repeated this over and over again, there is no military solution. that means there has to be a willingness to say there isnt an in...

Across a firing line and that, i am deeply concerned with. >> i one you told one of our producers that through russians eyes this strike appears to be emotional. talk about that, if you would. >> well, again, i just heard a few commentators say the same thing because donald trump during the campaign pretty much gave a completely different view of the world and im still trying to figure out what is going to be the trump doctrine and hes sort of changed on a dime and he said this himself. he was e...

Lots of support by the american people. when has he done anything that hillary clinton said he should do? so i would not underestimate the success of this. it was a limited, symbolic strike. it has not gotten the u.s. further into this complex war. he has to devise a syrian policy, which he doesnt have yet, but i think what he did politically and strategically actually has a lot of broad support and actually, as your commentators noted, was something that obama might have done. perhaps obama sho...

Syria aviation elements that are certified and train to deliver chemical munitions. i would be astonished if they werent devastated by the strike. as many of your commentators have discussed already, its highly unlikely to have any significant impact on assads survival instinct to not be overwhelmed by sunni muslim rebellion factions. so i hope the next step, though, if they continue to use u.s. military power, is not to use proportional power, but to go try and destroy the syrian air force in p...

Out of the balloon. we watched that with president obama. by taking that action, donald trump has restored the credibility of american power. he now inherits nightmarish problems in syria. in terms of the credibility of american power, i think most traditional washington commentators would say hes put more umph, more believable back into it. >> yet, katty, when the history is written of however this story ends, just like some looked at statements made to saddam hussein in late 1990, leading up t...